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In this mailing:
- Soeren Kern: A Month of Islam
and Multiculturalism in Britain: September 2017
- A. Z. Mohamed: Saudi Arabia
Still Promoting "Violent and Intolerant Teachings"
in Schoolbooks
- John R. Bolton: A Slow Death for
the Iran Deal
by Soeren Kern • October 16, 2017
at 5:00 am
- A Freedom of
Information request revealed that Sammy Woodhouse, a woman
sexually abused as a child by a grooming gang, was told by the
Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), a government
body, that she was not entitled to compensation because she
"consented" to the sexual abuse. Woodhouse appealed
the decision: "If an adult can privately think that it's
a child's fault for being abused, beaten, raped, abducted, I
think you're in the wrong job."
- Online jihadist
propaganda attracts more clicks in Britain than in any other
European country and the main internet companies are failing
to curb it, according to Policy Exchange, a think tank. The
report, "The New Netwar," said that the Islamic
State is still producing, at a conservative estimate, about
100 items of new content each week, including execution videos
and bomb-making instructions, reaching an audience of, at
minimum, tens of thousands, including large numbers of users
in the UK.
- British universities
hosted 110 events featuring extremist speakers in the last
academic year, 2016/17, with the highest proportion taking
place in London institutions. The extremist events listed were
overwhelmingly organized by Islamic societies, and groups and
speakers included former Guantanamo Bay detainees and Islamists.
The findings suggest that despite Prime Minister Theresa May's
claim that "enough is enough," British universities
continue to be a target for extremists promoting their
messages.
On
September 1, Mohiussunnath Chowdhury was charged with a terror
offense after he attacked police outside Buckingham Palace with a
sword and "ranted" that the "Queen and her soldiers
will all be in hellfire." Pictured: Police secure a road
outside Buckingham Palace after Chowdhury's attack, on August 25,
2017. (Photo by GOR/Getty Images)
September 1. Britain is home to up to 35,000
"Islamist fanatics," more than any other country in
Europe, according to European Union's counter-terrorism
coordinator, Gilles de Kerchove.
September 1. Mike Adamson, Chief Executive of the
British Red Cross, wrote: "There is a risk that...an
organization with the words 'British' and 'Cross' in its title is
confused with a Christian, establishment organization." He
added: "We are nowhere near as diverse as we need to be in our
volunteer base, our staffing or our leadership... that is why, as
CEO, I am personally leading our inclusion and diversity
strategy."
by A. Z. Mohamed • October 16,
2017 at 4:30 am
- "As early as
first grade, students in Saudi schools are being taught hatred
toward all those perceived to be of a different faith or
school of thought. The lessons in hate are reinforced with
each following year." — Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East
Director, Human Rights Watch.
- The Saudis "are
both the arsonists and the firefighters. They promote a very
toxic form of Islam that draws sharp lines between a small
number of true believers and everyone else, Muslim and
non-Muslim" – which spur jihadis to take action -- yet
they are "our partners in counterterrorism." —
William McCants, senior fellow, Brookings Institution, to the New
York Times, August 2016.
- In fourth-grade
second semester Monotheism textbook, Saudi students learn that
polytheists, "the worst of creatures," are condemned
to Hell. They also study a Quranic verse in which Allah
dictates that: "Indeed, they who disbelieved among the
People of the Scripture and the polytheists will be in the
fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the worst
of creatures." (98:6, Sahih International)
Saudi
Ministry of Education, Al-Tawhid, Student Book, Fifth Grade,
Second Semester, 2016-2017, pp 63-64
A review of the Saudi Ministry of Education's school
religion books currently available at the portal for digital
curriculum (visited on September 25, 2017) found out that the
curriculum still has violent and intolerant teachings. These books
were published for the school year 2016-17.
At a very early stage, the fourth grade, the
curriculum begins to teach Saudi children that Muslims are
essentially different but superior to all non-Muslims.
In a fourth-grade second semester Monotheism
textbook, Saudi students learn that polytheists, "the worst
creatures" according to the Quran (98:6), are condemned to
Hell.
In a lesson entitled "Universality of Islam and
Prophet Mohammed" fifth-graders are taught that Prophet
Mohammed was sent to all human beings: "Say, [O Mohammed],
"O mankind, indeed I am the Messenger of Allah to you all
(7:158).
by John R. Bolton • October 16,
2017 at 4:00 am
Pictured:
A uranium conversion facility just outside the city of Isfahan,
Iran, used as part of Iran's uranium enrichment process. (Photo by
Getty Images)
As Abba Eban observed, "Men and nations behave
wisely when they have exhausted all other resources." So it
goes with America and the Iran deal. President Trump announced
Friday that the U.S. would stay in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA), even while he refused to certify under U.S. law
that the deal is in the national interest.
"Decertification," a bright, shiny object for many,
obscures the real issue — whether the agreement should survive. Mr.
Trump has "scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it."
While Congress considers how to respond — or, more
likely, not respond — we should focus on the grave threats inherent
in the deal. Peripheral issues have often dominated the debate;
forests have been felled arguing over whether Iran has complied
with the deal's terms. Proposed "fixes" now abound, such
as a suggestion to eliminate the sunset provisions on the deal's
core provisions.
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